We request that you provide us with detailed information about the revolution that has taken place in Bavaria. We know nothing except a brief radio dispatch from the Bavarian Soviet government. We request that you inform us how events are unfolding there and whether the new order holds complete and total sway. I ask you to furnish us with information regarding the information I requested from you yesterday concerning your program on the national question. How stands the matter in Bavaria with the agrarian program of the Soviet government?*

Lenin

*Münchner Neueste Nachrichten*
No. 162, April 9, 1919

Published in Russian for the first time,
from the newspaper text
Translated from German

*By the Bavarian Soviet government is meant. — Ed.*